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Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering.

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Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering.

Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating star pattern
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

Pixelated background features repeating pink and yellow stars. Two distinct text blocks appear: left block reads "u cool..." in bold white letters with black outlines, right block reads "NOT" in identical style. Text is positioned centrally over star pattern. Stars are five-pointed, with pink stars in lighter shades and yellow stars in warmer tones. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink yellow star icon
  • u cool not text
  • pixelated retro text
  • star pattern icon

Visible Text

  • u cool...
  • NOT

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • yellow stars
  • pixelated
  • text "u cool..."
  • text "NOT"
  • bold white letters
  • black outlines
  • repeating pattern
  • central text
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806140746041692998104
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/86/867da9881c09b203008d31fd5a38cdc29e782d67720167ee0aeec56335b58401.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
867da9881c09b203
SHA-256
867da9881c09b203008d31fd5a38cdc29e782d67720167ee0aeec56335b58401
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060269

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,527 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 578

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • sarcastic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • repeating star pattern
  • central text placement

Dense Caption

Pixelated background features repeating pink and yellow stars. Two distinct text blocks appear: left block reads "u cool..." in bold white letters with black outlines, right block reads "NOT" in identical style. Text is positioned centrally over star pattern. Stars are five-pointed, with pink stars in lighter shades and yellow stars in warmer tones. Pixelation creates low-resolution, retro digital appearance. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated star background with text reading "u cool..." and "NOT" in bold black-and-white lettering.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • sarcastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink yellow star icon
  • u cool not text
  • pixelated retro text
  • star pattern icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • u cool...
  • NOT

Wordwall

  • pink stars
  • yellow stars
  • pixelated
  • text "u cool..."
  • text "NOT"
  • bold white letters
  • black outlines
  • repeating pattern
  • central text
  • low-resolution
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
200806140746041692998104
Archive entry
200806140746041692998104.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806140746041692998104.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806140746041692998104.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016